Believe, Build, Become: How to Supercharge your Career
Build the skills, confidence and female network you need to realise your true potential and achieve your professional goals.
365 enrolments
Duration
Approx 12 weeks2 hrs per week
Believe, Build, Become: How to Supercharge your Career
365 enrolled on this ExpertTrack
Supercharge your career with AllBright by improving your skills and networking
Designed by women for women, this 12-week ExpertTrack will coach you on confidence, networking and entrepreneurial mindset to help you achieve success in your career.
Allbright is one of the UK’s top professional networks for women, with a mission to advance women in their careers. If you want to supercharge your career, this ExpertTrack will support you in achieving your personal and business goals.
Guided by entrepreneurs and experts, you’ll take the time to explore:
- how to identify your strengths and motivations
- how to develop a sense of vision, resilience and creativity *how to think like a female founder
- how to turn challenges into opportunities
- how to build a meaningful professional network.
Be your own career coach and identify your key strengths
The first step is to carry out an honest assessment of your core values, motivations, strengths and weaknesses. Once these have been identified, you’ll build the tools and skills to unlock your potential and commit to a desired career direction.
As you draw this section to a close, transformational coach, Dr Yvette Abkrah MBE will help you create a career plan including actionable steps to get you started.
Learn to think like an entrepreneur
Hear from inspiring female founders and learn from their stories. Discover how to gain an entrepreneurial mindset by embracing growth and harnessing criticism with Melody Hossaini, Founder of InspirEngage International and Lillian Ogbogoh, International Speaker and Women’s Coach.
Growing can be an uncomfortable process, but it is essential for you to learn new ways of thinking, find your vision and build the confidence you need to be a female founder.
Improve your networking skills
The final piece of the puzzle crucially focuses on the people around you. Explore the basic principles of networking with Marissa King, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale, and other female educators.
Serial connector and CEO of McPherson Strategies, Susan McPherson, will teach you her own method for successful networking, and Lauren Maillian, CEO of DigitalUndivided will introduce you to the importance of sisterhood.
It’s time to build your own network and make sure it’s serving you in a meaningful way that delivers against your goals and priorities.
Key skills you will learn
- Networking
- Goal Setting
- Entrepreneurship
- Communication
- Risk Awareness
- Self Assessment
- Career Planning
- Professional Development
- Discovering Your Values
Experience required
No prior experience is required to take this ExpertTrack however we recommend showing up for yourself and being accountable to the goals and tasks you set for yourself. To do this, it can help to talk to others about your experiences and learnings as you progress through the content.
Getting started
This course is for professional women of all ages who want to focus on their personal development goals and create a ripple effect that will have a positive impact on their career, wellbeing, and relationships.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Career Coaching for Women: Supercharge Your Career with AllBright
4.8 (57 reviews)Get the support and skills you need to realise your professional ambitions with AllBright Academy’s career development course.
4 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Start with 'Why?'
- Believe, Build, Become
- Introduction to Project You: Supercharge your career
- The importance of 'Why?'
- Finding your own 'Why?'
- Accessing your power
- Chapter Case Studies
- Making choices and decisions
- Becoming accountable
- Taking action
- Everyday You
- Chapters summary and resources
Week 2
Discover your values
- Values
- Discovering your own values
- Deepening your relationship with values
- Chapter Case Study
- Uncovering dissonance
- Claiming your chosen career path
- Taking action
- Everyday You
- Chapter summary and resources
Week 3
Get to know yourself
- Who are you?
- How well do you know yourself?
- Acknowledge your strengths
- Chapter Case Study
- Integrate your weaknesses
- Becoming purposeful
- Owning who you are
- Everyday You
- Chapter summary and resources
Week 4
Supercharge your career
- Goals
- The importance of goals
- Learning about SMART goals
- Chapter Case Study
- Achieve your goals.
- Taking action
- Everyday You
- Chapter summary and resources
- Whole course summary
- What's up next?
Course 2
Build a Growth Mindset & Career Success with Advice from Female Founders
4.8 (12 reviews)Discover and develop key growth and entrepreneurial skills with the experts at AllBright
4 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Why everybody needs one.
- Welcome to the Course
- Welcome to this Week
- Identify and Cultivate your Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Live your life with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Take Care of The Entrepreneur Within
- Bring Those Entrepreneurial Ideas to Life
- 2 Inspiring Real-Life Stories
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
Week 2
Mindset: It All Starts with You
- Welcome to this Chapter
- Dive Into Your Control Centre
- Create your Reality
- Receive Coaching: 'My Passport' Exercise
- Embrace your Growth Mindset
- Harness Criticism: 2 Real-life Stories
- Hone A Healthy Mindset
- Visualise: PROMA© Cycle Exercise
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
Week 3
How to Stay True to your Vision?
- Welcome to this Chapter
- Define your Vision
- Work on your Legacy
- Listen to your Intuition
- Receive Coaching to Deal with Fear of Failure
- 2 Inspiring Real-Life Stories on Vision
- Recognise what to learn or leave behind
- Learn on the Job
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
Week 4
Reframing Uncertain Circumstances and Taking Risks
- Welcome to this Chapter
- Shift your Mindset: Mindset Prisms
- Reframe Uncertain Circumstances
- Testimonies from 3 Successful Founders
- Venture Into Your Discomfort Zone
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
- Whole Course Summary
- What's Up Next?
Course 3
Sisterhood Works: How to Build a More Meaningful Network
Develop an understanding of the neuroscience of networking and learn how to communicate better.
1 peer-graded assignment
4 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Networking 101
- Sisterhood Works, Build A More Meaningful Network
- The Networking Myths
- The Nature Of Networks
- Chapter Case Study
- Social Chemistry
- Taking Action
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
Week 2
The Art of Making Meaningful Connections.
- Meaningful Connections
- Susan's Method, Part 1
- Susan's Method, Part 2
- Chapter Case Study
- Susan's Method, Part 3
- Taking Action
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
Week 3
Resource Rich Networks
- Resource Rich Networks
- An Introduction To Resource Rich Networks
- Why Introductions Matter
- Inclusivity, The Importance Of Diversifying Your Network
- Chapter Case Study
- Enriching Your Network
- Taking Action
- Everyday You
- Chapter Summary & Resources
- Whole Course Summary
Week 4
Believe, Build, Become
- Believe, Build, Become: The Career Business Plan
- Congratulations
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- Make your career dreams a reality.
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World-class learning with AllBright
AllBright is all about inspiring change. Founded in 2018 by Debbie Wosskow OBE and Anna Jones, we’re a global women’s network acting as a springboard for smart-minded women of all ages and stages. Through our beautiful clubs and AllBright Digital, our sisterhood is helping shape a new narrative for those who want to supercharge their careers.
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